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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Tripolitania]]
* [[Tripolitania]]
* The old system of [[Municipalities of Libya|Municipalities (Baladiyat) of Libya]]
* The old system [[Municipalities of Libya| (Baladiyat) of Libya
* The new Sha'biyat-system in the [[Libya#Administrative_Divisions|section on administrative divisions]] (in the article "Libya").
* The new Sha'biyat-system in the [[Libya#Administrative_Divisions|section on administrative divisions]] (in the article "Libya").



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Az Zawiyah (Az or Ez or Al Zawiyah or Zawiya or Zawia or Zauia, most commonly Az Zawiyah), (Arabic:الزاوية, transliteration:Az Zāwiyah), (sometimes called Az Zawiyah Al Gharbiyah, الزاوية الغربية ), is a city of northwestern Libya situated on the Mediterranean coast about 40 km west of Tripoli. Az Zawiyah is the capital of a Sha'biyah (municipality) with the same name (see Az Zawiyah Municipality).

In the Libyan censuses of 1973 and 1984, the city counted about 100,000, it was then and possibly it continues to be today the fourth largest city in Libya by population (after Tripoli, Benghazi and Misratah). In 2003, the Az Zawiyah Municipality was estimated to have a population of about 200,000, [1] half of which or more is concentrated in the city of , There is a university named the Seventh of April University (founded in 1988).

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